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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Plan Toys


Some parents often wonder what toys are right for their children and how they can incorporate colors and shapes together to teach them while they are having fun. New parents might find themselves to be growing frustrated while trying to understand how they need to go about teaching their children. Plan Toys can help answer these probing questions.

Plan Toys includes color variations and systems in their toys that help improve childrens skill levels. The Click Clack Developmental Toy is a perfect example. This colorful track allows for children to watch the ball roll down the tracks, in and out of holes to eventually hit the bell at the bottom. This developmental toy helps to educate a child on cause and effect skills and visual tracking skills.

Another toy with excellent educational value would be the Wooden Shape Sorter. Child fit the appropriate shape with the cut out in the board. Also colorful, this toy helps improve identification skills as well as hand-eye coordination, and color recognition.

Being the parent of a toddler, the chaos can be stressful enough. Preoccupy them with these toys that not only stimulate their learning process, but provide entertainment for them as well.

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Monday, June 02, 2008

Wall Doodles!


Oh, dont we all appreciate our children when they draw beautiful, yet indecipherable, images on the wall? Our little dears definitely need to engage their creative side, however, we would much rather it be designated to something other than our nice, clean wall. Our Hands on Wall Toys will help do just that! Hang it on the wall and let them go to town! This mess free item is heat-sensitive and cleans away with disinfectant spray. They get their fill in of doodling on the wall, while you can relax knowing that they wont spill the paint on your carpet or make a Picasso-worthy drawing in crayon.

For your little girls, try the Playsa Face Girl Wall Panel Toy. This toy has the outline of a little girl so she can draw faces on it or whatever else she can create! We didnt forget the boys! Check out the Playsa Face Boy Wall Panel for him. They will both appreciate your generosity, and you can appreciate their clean works of art!

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Weekly WOW! at SensoryEdge

The Weekly WOW! is your opportunity to get a great deal on a piece of kids furniture or a cool toy. We've gone to our manufacturers and asked them to give us great deals in order to showcase their product line. Sometimes the Weekly WOW! will be one item, other times it'll be a setor all the products in a particular line. The Weekly WOW! will run from Monday through Sunday.



This weeks Weekly WOW! is the "Go Man Go" and "Poodles in Paris" line by LC Creations. We pestered our friend Chris over at LC Creations until he caved in and allowed us to go low low low on two of his newest lines.


LC Creations is a designer and manufacturer of high quality children’s furniture and accessories specializing in beautifully hand-crafted pieces to decorate and inspire the imagination of both children and parents.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Counting is a Piece of Cake!


Along with learning letters, you can jump start your preschooler learning her numbers simply by making it fun. The secret is to give her an activity that is enjoyable and combines learning with counting.

The Stack and Count Layer Cake by Learning Resources is a different way to learn numbers and counting. Each cake is painted either "chocolate" or "vanilla" and has a number on the side. The individual cake pieces are in a graduated size with number 10 being the largest and number 1 being the smallest.

Along with numbers, this fun toy also teaches spacial reasoning; that is, learning what goes on what. Can she balance all the larger pieces on the tiny number 1 piece? Experimentation will show her the results.

Pretend play is a wonderful way to learn. Let your child pretend she is a baker or a caterer to an important event and she needs to prepare cakes. This is also a great toy for group play as each child can participate in the building of cakes along with counting them too.

If you have a preschooler that is yearning to learn her numbers, give her a little boost and make learning to count as easy as, well baking a cake!

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Keeping Your Kids Entertained on the Road


This upcoming Easter weekend will entail many family trips to visit relatives and there's nothing more challenging than traveling with young children. Before getting asked "Are we there yet?" for the millionth time and you aren't even out of town yet, you might consider taking along some toys that will keep the kiddos busy as well as keeping their minds active and learning.

The Magnetic Pattern Block Kit from Melissa and Doug is an excellent toy to take along on a trip, either in a vehicle or airplane. The kit comes complete with everything your kids need to stay occupied while also learning shapes and logical ways to arrange things.

This kit has a magnetic board with a wooden frame and 120 magnetic wooden shapes. There are durable, coated pattern cards that the child simply puts into the wooden frame above the magnet board and then chooses the shapes to fill in the picture. The magnetic pieces will stick to the board right through the pattern card. Once your children have mastered the pattern cards, you can design your own using typing paper or invite your kids to design their own free form shapes directly on the magnetic board.

This toy is great for ages three and up and you can talk to little ones about how many sides triangles, squares and rectangles have. The differences in shapes and even point out road signs along the way that match certain blocks.

The entire kit comes in a durable carrying case with an easy access zipper pocket so small hands will have no problem getting into their kit and creating hours of fun on the road and off.

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Keeping Your Two-Year Old Interested (And Out of Mischief)


Even though all kids are different, once your child hits 2-years of age, you will have a similar challenge that many parents of toddlers face - keeping your children interesting and learning - hopefully at the same time.

Your two-year old has this great new body that walks, wait - runs and will go everywhere. She will also discover exactly how high she can manage to climb when you've just turned your back for a moment and get a drink of water and her nimble fingers will open cabinets and bring you the flour or sugar - spilling all the way - just in case you needed it. Most of all, two-year olds love to help, well they consider it helping. Instead of getting upset at the mess, try and see it for what it is and let her help you clean up so she understands that making a mess isn't acceptable help.

If you're making dinner, let him come in and stir the bowl with your casserole before you put it in the pan to cook and take the time to explain again that hot things can burn him and he needs to be careful. That way you let him help - but also let him help safely.

Another thing your two-year old will love is playing games. You need simple games that are fun and interesting to hold her attention and they shouldn't be frustrating either or she'll lose interest quickly. Singing simple songs and inserting a clap or two every now and then will delight your toddler. Shape matching and color choosing are easy toys that most toddlers pick up on quickly; simple puzzles are a great toy most two-year olds adore, reading a book together and there will be some books you read so often your two-year old will start reciting the words on the pages back to you!

Those are just a few ways to keep your toddler interested, learning, safe and out of mischief.

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